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Studies of alternative isoforms provide insight into TDP-43 autoregulation and pathogenesis.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Aug 2015
D'Alton Simon, Altshuler Marcelle, Lewis Jada
Abstract excerpt
TDP-43 is a soluble, nuclear protein that undergoes cytoplasmic redistribution and aggregation in the majority of cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. TDP-43 autoregulates the abundance of its own transcript TARDBP by binding to an intron in the 3' untranslated region, although the mechanisms underlying this activity have been debated. Herein, we provide the most extensive...
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